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Title: In Freedom's Cause

Author: G. A. Henty

Posting Date: September 11, 2009 [EBook #4792]
Release Date: December, 2003
First Posted: March 21, 2002

Language: English

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In Freedom's Cause

G. A. Henty

CONTENTS

I Glen Cairn
II Leaving Home
III Sir William Wallace
IV The Capture of Lanark
V A Treacherous Plot
VI The Barns of Ayr
VII The Cave in the Pentlands
VIII The Council at Stirling
IX The Battle of Stirling Bridge
X The Battle of Falkirk
XI Robert The Bruce
XII The Battle of Methven
XIII The Castle of Dunstaffnage
XIV Colonsay
XV A Mission to Ireland
XVI An Irish Rising
XVII The King's Blood Hound
XVIII The Hound Restored
XIX The Convent of St. Kenneth
XX The Heiress of the Kerrs
XXI The Siege of Aberfilly
XXII A Prisoner
XXIII The Escape from Berwick
XXIV The Progress of the War
XXV The Capture of a Stronghold
XXVI Edinburgh
XXVII Bannockburn

PREFACE.

MY DEAR LADS,

There are few figures in history who have individually exercised
so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert
Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable
perseverance, and immense energy of these two men that Scotland
owed her freedom from English domination. So surprising were the
traditions of these feats performed by these heroes that it was at
one time the fashion to treat them as belonging as purely to legend
as the feats of St. George or King Arthur. Careful investigation,
however, has shown that so far from this being the case, almost
every deed reported to have been performed by them is verified by
contemporary historians. Sir William Wallace had the especial bad
fortune of having come down to us principally by the writings of
his bitter enemies, and even modern historians, who should have
taken